There are several apps out there to lớn grab a taxiin Bangkok, but so far GrabTaxi gets most of the love. But how does it work? Is it good?
We have tried it lots of times over the past months to lớn tell you how it works and if it is as good as it seems.If you ever wondered about itbut never dared khổng lồ try it, kiểm tra our review bellow.
How does it work
GrabTaxi booking process in 3 steps.
GrabTaxi is an tiện ích you can use to conveniently summon a taxi to come, pick you up & bring you to a specific location. It is available for Android, iOS và BlackBerry (no Windows Phone).
Certainly this phầm mềm didn’t reinvent the wheel, and that is just fine. The process is quite straightforward. First, you need lớn register with your phone number. In contrast khổng lồ Uber, you don’t need lớn use any credit thẻ information, as you pay directly to the xe taxi driver when the ride is over.
The next step to book a xe taxi is to select the origin và destination. To lớn help you with the process, the tiện ích shows results from Google places và drone çekimi Foursquare, which is quite handy. You can also drop the pointer in the maps to getsuggestions.
Lastly, you can see an estimated price for the ride, insert a promo code to lớn get discounts on the fare and showroom notes for the driver.
When you confirm the ride, the map shows you the location of the taxis in the neighborhood, và the kurumsal tanıtım filmi race begins. You can see in front of your eyes how the taxi drivers accept or decline your journey (the icons of their taxis turn red or green). After some seconds, the system picks up the driver closer khổng lồ you from those who accepted.
GrabTaxi has a 25 THB service fee over the metered fee. When you reach the destination you just need khổng lồ pay lớn the xe taxi driver the amount stated on the meter plus drone çekimleri the 25 THB, unless you used any promotion.
The good
Share my ride, a function to tóm tắt your location with family or friends. Graphic by GrabTaxi
One of the main strengths of GrabTaxi is the technology. The phầm mềm is very well designed, it’s easy lớn use and it just works. This becomes more evident when you compare it with the tiện ích of competitors lượt thích All Thai taxi (ok, this is still in early development) or Easy Taxi.
The technology behind the location search, with autocomplete, is a great help in a country where the addressesare never accurate, with a different alphabet & different spellings for the same place.
Another benefit of GrabTaxi is the constant promotions & discounts, which usually mean you can use the service for no fee or even with some discount over the meter. These promotions are so constant that we have created an article khổng lồ gather the latest promo codes.
GrabTaxi also gives you the option to share your ride with your friends or family. They will be able khổng lồ track your location remotely & know exactly when you will arrive.
The bad
The worst enemy of this service based in geolocation is, ironically, the location in the map
The worst part of GrabTaxi is not really its fault, but a consequence of a serie ofcircumstances with a difficult solution, if any.
First, with the almost non-existent urban planning of Bangkok, the accuracy of the map here is way worse than on other countries. Google Maps – or others – have a faulty or non-existent registry of street numbers, and there goes your chance to lớn locate your house precisely.
This has an impact on the experience, as you will often have to lớn use an approximate location unless you are in a well-known place like a hotel or any other business listed in the tìm kiếm results. The taxi driver will then need to call you to ask for directions, which can be a problem if you don’t speak Thai, or he doesn’t speak English.
Even when you can communicate with the driver, if you use GrabTaxi often from a “difficult location” – let’s say, in the middle of a Soi – it can be really tiresome lớn explain the directions over và over again, every time.
In short
All in all, we can say GrabTaxi is for now, and by far, the best option lớn get a xe taxi on-demand in Bangkok. Surely it has its flaws, & it still has room for improvement, but somehow it managed to lớn work reasonably finein a crazily managedplace like Thailand.
Considering the difficulty of the language và the lack of a proper streetnumber registry, it works pretty well. If you ever need a taxi, give it a try.
